Byron York: Assessing the new Democratic intel memo

[mystery-ak]

Byron York: Assessing the new Democratic intel memo
by Byron York | Feb 24, 2018, 10:36 PM

It took a while, owing to delays over classified information, but Democrats on the House Intelligence Committee have finally released their rebuttal to the "FISA abuse" memo put forth earlier this month by committee Republicans. The GOP accused the Justice Department and FBI of relying heavily on the unverified Trump dossier in a secret court request to wiretap the sometime, volunteer Trump foreign policy adviser Carter Page. That is simply not true, say Democrats in their rebuttal.

"FBI and DOJ officials did not 'abuse' the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) process, omit material information, or subvert this vital tool to spy on the Trump campaign," the Democratic memo declares. (All emphases are in the original.)

Specifically, Democrats say, the Justice Department "met the rigor, transparency, and evidentiary basis needed to meet the FISA's probable cause requirement" for a warrant on Page. Democrats say the Justice Department provided the court with four categories of information that together were "a multi-pronged rationale for surveilling Page." The four categories are:

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[Cyber Liberty]

FTA:

But despite their early protests, Democrats have not come up with a terribly effective rebuttal.

The Rats will, nevertheless, confidently declare that they came up with a fatal rebuttal of the Rep memo.  They already are on the Sunday shows.  And the lapdog press will lapdog it up.  Mueller will be touted as the most vindicated, honest and brilliant man in DeeCee, and I will vomit.

[WingNot]

Just Throw-up a little in your mouth.  Save the puke for something really big.

[truth_seeker]

Nunes, GOP, not a lawyer. Farm family background.

Schiff, lawyer-Harvard, worked with Rep. Jeff Flake, and called Benghazi investigation, "waste of time."

I report, you decide. "It all depends on what the meaning of is, is." (W.J. Clinton, key figure in another political scandal, involving perjury, disbarment, settlement in civil case, etc.)

[Cyber Liberty]

Just Throw-up a little in your mouth.  Save the puke for something really big.

It can be difficult to compromise some things...